Dan
Hello, it's Dan here. In the Key of Q is on hiatus until the first of March, but until those new episodes drop, here are clips from the patron exclusive feed, plus other treats from the main episode to keep you occupied. This week we revisit SADBOY.
Hello and welcome to our special Patron episode of In the Key of Q, in which we welcome back SADBOY to talk to us about his five songs to save from Armageddon. Welcome back, SADBOY.
SADBOY
What's up, everybody?
Dan
Now I'm afraid to report to you that the end of the world is coming. I know.
SADBOY
Is it really?
Dan
The end of the world is coming and you can only rescue five songs.
SADBOY
Five songs.
Dan
Five songs out of all the songs in the world. Now, what five would you choose and why?
SADBOY
Oh, I probably, though, don't have like a type of being on them. I would definitely say they'd by Rashad. I would take a little bit by likely. I would take Your Girlfriend by Robyn. I would say Doing It Right by Daft Punk and by my favourite that everyone like kind of stones me about my life my overall favourite would have to be Cash Raised by Tanasha.
Dan
And what would be your reasons for those choices.
SADBOY
Saying it's like a hybrid of record where it's kind of like in the crust between. It's like, is I I don't know, like the energy in that right age is like it gives like Matrix Jungle have to like fight for my life and.
Likely where her is kind of like a calm settling vibe that I can use and then where Robyn’s Call Your Girlfriend is very the record is real hard. As in it has a lot of triumph in it, but it's like it's kind of like you need to settle things out between whomever at that moment says it's the end of the world. So and doing it right by Daft Punk, because you know, oh, it's the end of the world. So why not have a good time?
Dan
Good reasoning.
SADBOY
Cash released by Tinashe because it brings up the vibe and you know you. And then at the end, it's kind of like a switch up in the record. So like so it's really a point where like, you can talk your shit.
So like, I imagine that to be like the scene where like you kill the zombies, like on the crazy part, like on like a massive level or so I think that.
Dan
I have my vision of the end of the world is it's really bleak space. Where is your vision at the end of the road is going to be like a Hollywood movie, you know, possibly the happy ending.
SADBOY
And it just shows I play too many games at the child.
Dan
Do you find as a musician listening to other people's music still really, really inspiring?
SADBOY
Oh yeah, I think I grab. I think as a child, I grabbed a lot from the mainstream, and I think now I grab a lot from the underground. I feel like what mainstream? The only thing I can really grab from them is like the production value and how they do things on stage and everything and lighting.
SADBOY
But other than that, underground got it for like four when it comes to like talent and being creative, like, that's why I drew a lot from. I think also for me, I grew up in the age of Limewire and in, like in my space and it like digging through Tumblr for records and before SoundCloud became like a major label thing, like it was just so much great content. I would like honestly on my weekends and when I got home from school, I'll just dig the internet for whatever I could find.
Dan
That sounds like a much better thing to do with the internet than what everybody else was doing, which is find pornography.
SADBOY
Yeah, that's good stuff.
Dan
My main aim really on this podcast is to allow musicians like you to reach a wider audience is wider international audiences, ideally, and also for audiences to discover your music and to not feel themselves alone in the world.
If there was one song of yours that, well, it was a perfect entry into your catalogue, what do you think it would be?
SADBOY
I think I'm going to have the track AM To PM. AM to PM is kind of like it's a really soft. Like to me, I feel like it's a bubblegum sad boy record, but it is really soft and is full of love and is very light.
It's just expressing to whoever you love at the moment or you're entertaining at the moment that you want to be with them and ride for them and be everything that you can.
Dan
SADBOY, thank you so, so much for joining us today, and we really look forward to hearing more of your material coming out in this year.
SADBOY
Thank you.
Dan
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